The Anambra State Government has transferred the embattled 19-year-old candidate in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Ejikeme Mmesoma, to a psychotherapist for three months of guidance and counseling coaching.
The state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Theresa Chuma-Udeh, addressed journalists in Awka on Wednesday.
Mmesoma had insisted on a score of 362 as opposed to her official score of 249, according to JAMB. In one viral video, she displayed the result, which she said had been downloaded from the official JAMB portal.
The Board, however, presented evidence indicating that Mmesoma had requested her result via its automated SMS-based service, which repeatedly responded to her requests with the 249 score.
Following an engagement with a committee set up by the State Government to investigate the incident, the 19-year-old reportedly confessed that she singlehandedly forged her UTME result.
The committee, in its report, found her guilty of forging her JAMB result using her phone.
According to the state government, Mmesoma will undergo a therapy and counseling class for three months as advised by the panel set up by the state government to investigate the controversy surrounding her JAMB UTME result.
Chuma-Udeh stated that the panel, after finding Mmesoma guilty, recommended that “she should undergo psychological counseling and therapy”
